A good time to remind people what "junior doctor" means in the UK. It's anyone who is not yet a Consultant. I was 38, with 20 years of medical training and experience, a PhD, a father, and with a mortgage to pay. And I was still called a "junior doctor" #NHS

Rishi Sunak Steve Barclay You Tories caused the problems. None of you should be anywhere near Govt. You caused 100,000+ needless deaths. You've made poverty worse. Corruption & lies. One thing is for sure, the people of the UK cannot live without the NHS but we can live without the Conservative Party.

Laura Kuenssberg: Maybe social care would improve is care workers weren't struggling on £18,000 / year. Rishi Sunak: What if we gave them a SENSE that they're being paid more? #BBCLauraK: Would you work for £18,000? Rishi Sunak: Look Laura! My job actually matters!!

Hmm... very interesting. Will have to go be this one a careful read...

Jeez. Just when you thought this Government couldn’t sink any lower. Everyone needs to watch this from Unite the union: join a union National Lead Officer Onay Kasab. Solidarity with all those now forced to take strike action

This is the letter I have sent to the Prime Minister with regard to rumours of the #Windrush Scandal recommendations being reneged on. I do hope it is not true Rishi Sunak Liberal Democrats Lib Dem Lords ⁦Home Office⁩ #Windrush75

I've rarely read legislation so lacking in underlying coherence and logic as today's bill from the government that would significantly restrict the right to strike - and I quote - in "health services, fire and rescue services, education services, transport...

Defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. Sound familiar?

Here's the President of the Royal Society of Medicine pointing out that almost as many UK doctors are applying for a certificate to work abroad as qualify from UK med schools. Can anyone in govt explain why strike hardball is anything other than an act of wilful harm to the NHS?

We see that Steve Barclay has told @BBCR4today programme he is meeting with doctors later today. Actually he cancelled the 9am meeting we agreed so he could do media, and a further meeting is not yet agreed. Hopefully it will be soon.

#WinningAtLife Nice, sunny dry ride in this morning, Jeff Lynne's ELO "Mr Blue Sky" playing at the most appropriate moment, AND saw a yellow Land Rover, so that's 1000 points to me Jo Badge! (although it was AK62 JDC, so maybe only 500 points ;)

Labour’s Angela Rayner responds: “As the disgraced former PM plots his comeback, he reminds us all yet again why he's totally unfit for office. While people were unable to say goodbye to loved ones, he was breaking his own rules…This joke's not funny anymore."

We have a problem. Without better pay and conditions NHS staff will continue to leave and the NHS will spiral further. The problem is that this government want the NHS to fail. How do you negotiate with someone who wants the health service to collapse?

Jonas Salk, inventor of polio vaccine: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" Frederick Banting, inventor of insulin: "Insulin does not belong to me. It belongs to the world." Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel: 400% price hike on COVID vaccine is "consistent with the value."

Just finished this... (am a slow reader these days), a much appreciated gift from SMB A well curated and varied collection of stories... particularly enjoyed "The Screaming Skull" by F. Marion Crawford and "The coming of Abel Behenna" by Bram Stoker.

Thank you for the lovely tweets about this 😊 I'm trying (trying!) to persuade the Beeb to lemme have Series 2 and I need your help looking for ammo 💣 Teachers-did you use it in classes? Parents-did you watch with your kids? Any stories you have might make the difference🙏

What about black soldier flies?

Ach, well here we go again... Twitter revoking authentication from third party apps. Probably an "error", but maybe just the push I need. At least it means I recovered my login, so I can GET MY DATA AND DELETE MY ACCOUNT #OnTheToDo

Up early to get out on the picket line for the first of 18 days of industrial action for UCU Leicester UCU This is going to be tough, financially, mentally and physically, so this is why I am doing it… youtu.be/RtsQQdMOP8s